ApplicationDeadline: January 20, 2012 (receipt)
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Note: applications must be received by 5:00 pm Central Time on Friday, January 20, 2012 to be considered on time.
Questions can be addressed to Artistic Programs Administrator Laura Leffler-McCabe
McKnight Advancement Grants
The McKnight Advancement Grants recognize playwrights whose work demonstrates exceptional artistic merit and excellence in the field, and whose primary residence is in the state of Minnesota. Two grants of $25,000 each will be awarded in 2012-13, funded by the Minneapolis-based McKnight Foundation as part of its Arts Program. The grants are intended to significantly advance recipients' playwriting development and their careers. Additional funds of $2,000 can be used to support a play development workshop and other professional expenses.
Past recipients include: David Adjmi, Carlyle Brown, Lisa D'Amour, Barbara Field, Keli Garrett, Jeffrey Hatcher, Melanie Marnich, Greg Moss, Kira Obolensky, and Dominic Orlando.
Selection ProcessApplications are screened for eligibility by the Playwrights' Center and evaluated by a select panel of professional theatre artists; finalists are then evaluated by a diverse panel of national theatre artists. Selection is based on artistic excellence, professional achievement, and is guided by the Playwrights' Center's mission statement. The Playwrights' Center staff does not participate in selection decisions. Back to Top
Keli Garrett
Core Writers // Core Writers // McKnight Advancement Grants // Core Writers //
Keli Garrett’s plays and adaptations have been produced and developed at Dixon Place in NYC, Zoo District in L.A., Penumbra Theatre, the LAByrinth, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Rites and Reason Theatre, Victory Gardens, City Lit Theater, Chicago Theater Company, Organic Theater, and the California College of Arts and Crafts. The Rhode Island Arts Council, The Joyce Foundation, City Lit Theater and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum have commissioned her work. She holds an M.F.A. 1999 in Creative Writing from Brown University, was a Beinecke Foundation fellow, and has a B.A. in Theatre from Columbia College.
Gregory Moss
Jerome Fellowships // McKnight Advancement Grants //
Gregory Moss is a writer and performer from Newburyport, MA.
He holds an M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from Brown University's Literary Arts Program.
His plays include sixsixsix, The Uses of Enchantment, Billy Witch, House of Gold, The Destroyed Room and punkplay, among others.
His work has been developed with or produced by La Comédie Française, Rattlestick, The A.R.T., Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Empty Space, Playwrights Horizons, PlayPenn, Clubbed Thumb, Soho Rep, New York Theatre Workshop, Steppenwolf, EST LA, and Red Eye. He is a member of the Workhaus Collective, Minneapolis's only playwright-driven theater company.
His collaborations with filmmaker Roger Warren Beebe have been screened widely at film festivals both in America and abroad.
Gregory is the recipient of a 2006-2007 Lucille Lortel Playwriting Fellowship, a 2008 Millay Colony Residency, a 2009 Eugene O'Neill Center National Playwrights Conference residency, a 2010-2011 Jerome Fellowship, and a recently awarded McKnight Fellowship (administered by The Playwrights Center).
Current projects include commissions from Playwrights Horizons, Woolly Mammoth, Clubbed Thumb, and La Jolla Playhouse. Gregory is also working on a sequence of four plays about American juvenile delinquency and youth counter-culture in the 60s, 70, 80s, and 90s.
Recent: workshop of House of Gold at La Comédie Française (winner, Prix du Public) and production at EST-LA (LA Times and LA Weekly Critics' Pick); Billy Witch produced by Studio 42 (NY), directed by Erik Pearson.
Upcoming productions: sixsixsix at The Old Red Lion, London (Spring 2012); Une Maison en Or (House of Gold) directed by Frederique Plain, Paris (Spring 2012); Golden Age (commission, Guthrie Theatre/University of Minnesota; Spring 2012); and Reunion at the Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep Festival (Summer 2012).
Workshops & Development: The Uses of Enchantment at The Playwrights Realm (NY) dir. Davis McCallum (March 2012) and The Source Festival (DC) (Spring/Summer 2012).
Two new plays, Blindenss and The House of Tomorrow, will be workshopped at the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis this spring and summer.
Writing, video and audio are archived at www.gregorysmoss.com.
